Improvement in revenue-recorders



H. e. ALDRICH. Revenue Recorder Patented Oct. 8, 1878.

witnesses InvenT or me. #412222, FV

that an alcoholic drink was sold.

UNITED STATES HARVEY C. ALDRICH, OF

PATENT QFFICE.

NOIHVICH, COXXECTICITT.

IMPROVEMENT IN REVENUE-RECORDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 208,877, dated October S, lSTS; application filed July 3, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARVEY U. ALDRICH, of Norwich, county of New London, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Revenue-Recorder; and I hereby claim the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure l is a vertical section through line (I: a Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan view with top or cover removed.

The object of my invention is to record alcoholic and other drinks wherever sold and subject to a revenue tax but it may be used for all purposes of recordin In the drawing, A represents a case or box with an opening, by which access may be had to the mechanism, said opening to be closed and provided with a suitable lock to prevent tampering with the mechanism. B is a lever to operate the recorder. G is a reciprocating piece having slots which permit it to slide. 1) D, Fig. 1, represent the annunciators, with marks upon their faces of the price or the article sold, reciprocating with sliding piece 0, and moving over openings in side 01' box.

Working the lever B to the right, annuncia tor D will move over opening E and show Vorking lever B to the left, annunciator 1) will cover opening E and show the sale of a malt drink.

F, Fig.1, is a stamp with the State seal or number of the box on its end, to be depressed by the collector of revenue. F, Fig. l, is a stamp to be depressed by the user of the recorder at the end of the days business, to sep arate each days sales. F, Fig. 1, is a stamp for marking or cutting the paper an equal dis tance from the record at the time it is to be taken out by the collector, thereby stopping any one from tearing off any part of the record.

9 g are rocking punches or markers, each punch keeping a different record. orking lever B to left causes reciprocating piece 0 to move to right, which operates punch g, there by recording, say, liquor. \Vorking lever B to the right causes the reciprocating piece 0 to move to the left, which operates punch g, recording on the opposite side of the paper, say, malt liquor.

H, Fig. l, is an alarm placed in the receptacle I, it being operated by pawl-bearer '1', connected by rod 12, thereby giving an alarm. at each movement of the pawl-bearer, or after each record is made. It is a pawl held in position by a spring while engaged with ratchet (I. The pawlbearer is operated by inclines 7a 7;. lVorking lever B to the right, reciprocating piece 0 moves to the left, causing pin m, Fig. 2, to pass up the incline lo, engaging pawl h with ratchet 17, revolving rotating punch c sufficiently to make two punctures in the paper, thus recording the revenue for an alcoholic drink. \Yorking leverB to the left moves reciprocating piece 0 to the right, causing pin m, Fig. 2, to pass up the incline 7., thus engaging pawl h with ratchet (I, and operating rotary punch c sufficiently to make one puneture in the paper, and thus record the revenue for a malt drink.

0 is the rotating punch and feed-roll, punching once form alt and twice for alcoholic drinks. 1 is a trough to guide the paper from reel 8 to rotating punching and feeding rolls 0 c. s is a reel supplied with a paper fillet. g g are rocking punches carried and operated on shafts m m, 9 recording alcoholic and g recording malt liquors. 0 0 are boxes containing shafts of pressure-roll c and rotating feed-punch c. p p are pins for the reciprocating piece 0 to slide on. r is a crotched lever working on the reciprocating piece C when operated by lever B.

It is proper here to notice the difterence between all reveiuie-rcgisters and my recorder. All registers allow of collusions with collectors and users, since they are trusted to copy on a paper fillet, and after it is taken from the machine it is impossible to tear off any partof the record without detection, thus stopping all collusions. It protects the user as well as the Government, for it records each articlesold and separates each days sales. The lever B is moved but once for any record it is required to make, thereby making it easier to operate and less liable to mistakes than most registers. \Yith mine the public see readily that the right amount is recorded, as the machine announces the price of each article at the time it is recorded.

the amount from the registers. Mine records Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In revenue -recorders actuated by pulls upon a lever, the sliding piece 0, inclines k k, ratchet d, alarm H, annunciators D D, tilting 0r rocking punches g,rot-ating feed and revenue punch 0, and pressure-roll 0, so combined as to feed the paper fillet, record the revenue and amount taken for each article sold in separate places, and at the same time attracting the attention of and announcing to the public the same by one or more pulls of the lever.

HARVEY G. ALDRICH.

Witnesses S. S. THRESHER, .T, 'l. ALDRICH. 

